Pre-Event Planning Start by reviewing what materials can be collected Consider barriers to recycling Evaluate opportunities to prevent waste ESTABLISH.

Pre-Event Planning

•Start by reviewing what materials can be collected•Consider barriers to recycling•Evaluate opportunities to prevent waste

•ESTABLISH GOALS:• Create a recycling and waste prevention plan• Think about waste prevention

Pre-Event Planning•FOOD:

• Plan to donate leftover food• Consider composting food scraps (organic)

Pre-Event Planning•VENDORS & VOLUNTEERS:

• Recruit and train volunteers/employees• Make initial contact with

vendors and exhibitors a few months before the event

Prepare an introductory letter to vendors and exhibitors.

Pre-Event Planning

• SITE LOGISTICS

• Hire a garbage and/or recycling hauler(s).

• Establish a relationship with the event coordinator, site supervisor and/or janitorial staff

• PUBLICITY• Publicize the recycling message

During Event• SET-UP

• Set up recycling receptacles and stations the day before the event, if possible

• Maximize collection and reduce contamination of recyclables

• Greet vendors and exhibitors during set-up

Promote recycling/ waste prevention using signs or banners at entrance and registration areas, signs on garbage and recycling receptacles, statements in programs and public address announcements.

During Event• RECYCLE!

• Designate a central collection area for garbage and recycling, where drop boxes or dumpsters are staged.

• Recycling volunteers should be easy to identify

• Use hand trucks, carts or “gators” to transport material from the recycling stations to the central collection areaRiverfest in downtown Little

Rock designates their recycle area in the middle of all the activities and in a central location.

Large Event Recycling Examples• Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza Fishing Tournament

• Recyclable materials are collected such as cans and bottles and delivered to the local recycling location

• Leftover foods are donated to the Dorcus House in Little Rock

• Little Rock Zoo• The Little Rock Zoo has long established a “Green Team” that has

equipped the facility with containers and various items located around the zoo for guests to recycle items purchased at the zoo.

• Since the spring of 2006, the Horticulture Department has been composting 48 cubic feet a day of elephant manure, leaves, grass clippings and other yard waste. Currently, scraps from Café Africa and the Commissary are also added to the compost. The finished compost is used in the Zoo landscape and donated to local school and community garden projects.

Above: The zoo created this logo to identify recycling areas around the park

• Riverfest: Arkansas’ Premier Music & Arts Festival• The “Riverfest Recycles” program encourages festival goers to recycle plastic

bottles and aluminum cans, which are typically discarded.• Festival goers can stop by the recycling tent, and pick up a recycling bag.

Attendees are encouraged to fill their recycling bags with at least 20 recyclable items and return it to the ten for a chance to win a prize.

• In 2013, Festival goers and volunteers collected over 80,000 aluminum cans

Facts about Recycling

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-recyclinghttp://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0802.aspSources: